Robert Weise

As a result, he turned to painting; taking private lessons from Hermann Drück [de] at the State Academy of Fine Arts Stuttgart.

His primary instructors there were Jean-Joseph Benjamin-Constant and William-Adolphe Bouguereau[1] In 1896, after travelling throughout Belgium, Holland, Italy and Spain, he settled in Munich, where he made friends with the staff members of Jugend, a progressive art magazine.

In 1899, he was part of a group that established an artists' association called "Die Scholle [de]", an agricultural term that often means "homeland", but they denied any patriotic intent.

That same year, he decided to abandon city life altogether and moved to an area near Lake Constance, with his wife Walburga and daughter Gertraud.

In 1906, he received an invitation from the Württembergische Kunstfreunde, offering him his own studio in Stuttgart, with an annual salary, no obligations, and an opportunity to exhibit frequently.